The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-27
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Balzac's memory is to be honored
by monument at Tours, his birth
place.
Frances E. Wizards book, ''Wom-
EN- and Temperance, is being trans
lated into japanese.
Canada has young Indian poetess
in the person of Pauline johnson, re-
siding at Brantford.
The portrait of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne that Emanuel Leutze painted in
Washington in 1862 was sold in New
York for the Insignificant sum of $40.
A London publisher makes the
statement that his firm receives a year.
ly average of FIVE hundred full-fedged
three-volume manuscript novels. s.
United Presbyterian.
Fanny Herring, who twenty-five
years ago was one of the best known
actresses in the country, was arrested
in Brooklyn the other day for drunken
ness, and pleaded guilty.
There are twenty persons whose
gifts to colleges in this country aggre-
gate over $23, O00 000 Three of these
Stephen Girard, Johns Hopkins and
Asa Packer-gave over $14,OOO,0 900.
Mrs. Champney, who wrote
"Three Vassar girls, and is the wife
of Mr.. j. Wells Champney, the artist,
has couple of interesting little folks
as bright as her books, though unluck-
lily for the girls college one of them is
a boy.-Albang argus.
-Trowbridge, the famous short story
writer, says that old Major Noah gave
him excellent advice when he said:
"My son, don't write poetry" The
wise old man knew that in giving this
advice he ran no risk of making mis-
take. Springfield Times.
Mime. Papp has completed the fif-
tieth year of her editorship of the
well-known Belgian newspaper, lie
Journal de BrWgeS. The paper was
founded by her husband, who was an
eminent geographer, and is one of the
most important dailies in the kingdom.
When paradise LOST was first
published,i in 1867, Edmund Waller, HIM
self poet and critic, said ''The old
blind schoolmaster, John Milton, has
published tedious poem on the fall of
man; if its length be not considered a
merit, it has no other. PhiladelphiG
Press.
Bill Nye says he expects to make a
great deal of money out of his last
book because it is Charger and thicker"
than any he ever published before.
"What the public wants." he adds, ''is
a big book-one that can be used to
prop up the lounge with when its leg is
broken"
The demand for Mrs. Cleveland's
photographs is still active. Fifty
thousand have already been sold, and
the Washington photographer who
holds the negative is printing 200
pictures day of the handsome ''frst
lady" The net profits in eight months
have reached the satisfactory sum of
$1,000 Detroit Free Press.
Lord Roseberry recently purchased
at sale of manuscript in Edinburgh
the original draft of Burns
'Whistler," consisting of two -and-a-
half folio pages, for which he paid 230
guineas, and volume of letters and
other papers in Burns hand, among
which was a letter to William Nicol
beginning: "My dear sir, that blamed
mare of yours is dead"
Among the curious names found
in the roster of the Fiftieth Congress
are Jehu, Hilary, Adoniram, Knute,
Cherubusco, Beriah, Welty, Baker,
Fisher, Weaver, Cooper, Mason,
Glover, Hunter, Miller, Brewer
Granger, Turner, Taylor and Sawyer
For the first time in years there is no
Robinson in Congress. The colors rep
resented are White, Gray and Brown.
There is only one Hogg among the
members. = Chicago Times.